couchant
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈkaʊtʃənt/
couchant (not comparable)
- (of an animal) Lying with belly down and front legs extended; crouching.
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:
- The dogs, with eager yelp,
Are struggling to be free;
The hawks in frequent stoop
Token their haste for flight;
And couchant on the saddle-bow,
With tranquil eyes, and talons sheath’d,
The ounce expects his liberty.
- The dogs, with eager yelp,
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter I. "The Shipwreck", page 14.
- There were the tawny rocks, like lions couchant, defying the ocean, whose waves incessantly dashed against and scoured them with vast quantities of gravel.
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XX
- Two figures faced each other, large, austere;
- A couchant sphinx in shadow to the breast,
- An angel standing in the moonlight clear;
- 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 91
- Or again, have you ever watched fine collie dogs couchant at twenty yards' distance?
- 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:
- (heraldry) Represented as crouching with the head raised.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
- His crest was covered with a couchant Hownd, / And all his armour seem'd of antique mould [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.2:
- Russian: лежащий
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